Riverhead High School - Blue Peconic Yearbook (Riverhead, NY)

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Above: A pensive Dob Oevinski ponders his forthcoming yeor or Riverheod High Dob wos on exchange student lost yeor to Colombia For left New administrators must constantly prove their worth to the established majori- ty. Assistant Principol Ms. Firz- pornck has certainly done this. os shown by her remarkable record of discipline. Mr. Degrosse understands the point which his co-assistant is trying to moke. Opening 5

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WELCOME TO WELCOME TO THE on electricity When night fell, there wos nothing to do. A candlelight dinner may sound romontic. but ofter three or four nights, it begins to wear thin. No lights, no radio, and no television oil odded up to nothing to do For most, the storm wos only on inconve- nience. since their power wos restored in o few days. But for some, the storm wos more of o disaster They hod no power for over o week, so they lost oil their perishoble food This, plus the foct that they hod no running hot water, mode these people especially ongry or LILCO. Eventually though, things returned to normal for them. too. Hurricane Gloria didn't bring much roin. but the Homecoming weekend did. The down- IWERHEAD. UNEXPECTED. . . pour on Saturday ruined the floors and soaked the ground, but it didn't dampen the BLUE WAVES spirit And mony ogreed that the Homecoming donee was one of the best dances in o long rime. The rest of this book will tell you the story of 1966. the yeor of the unexpected Nobody could hove predicted the things to come in the beginning of the year, ond or the end. o quick look over your shoulder will tell you that where we've been is hard to believe This book conroins the things that happened in Riverheod: the good, the bod. ond the unexpected So. welcome to Riverheod os It wos in 1966 Welcome to the unexpected!

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DOING THE UNEXPECTED STUDENTS TAKE THEIR WEEKENDS SERIOUSLY It's 2:25 Srudenrs pour our of rheir classrooms, relieved rhor rhe school doy Is finally over. And whor do rhey do? Well, if rheir porenrs hod rheir woy. they'd go srroighr home and do chores ond homework. Of course, rhor isn't rhe woy ir is. Alrhough rhe odminisrrorors ond reochers of RH5 don't like ro odmir ir. school is moinly o social gorhering. Wirhour friends, school is norhing more rhon o redious series of dosses obour rhings you probably reolly don r core ro know obour. Wirh friends, school is o lor more inreresring ond fun. Wherher you're wirh rhem in school rrying ro moke Ir rhrough rhe boring doily rourlne. or you're rogerher ourside df rhe school doy or o donee or o porry. gerring rogerher wirh your friends is o lor of fun Nor oil of us lounge oround when we've gor norhing else ro do Some hove discovered rhor no work ond oil ploy mokes Jock o very poor boy The cosr of living, even for o reenoger. is prerry steep Many srudenrs sove money for cors or for rheir col- lege educorions. These working srudenrs hove rhe difficult rosk of juggling rheir jobs, rheir homework, ond rheir social life Needless ro soy. rhey usuolly monoge very well If you asked oil rhe srudenrs in RHS whor rhe besr doy of rhe week, nine rimes our of ren rhey d rell you it's Friday. If you ask- ed rhem why, you'd probably ger o hundred differenr answers, bur rhey d oil agree rhor Friday is rhe doy ro ger owoy from rhe never-ending monorony of ocodemics. rhe doy rhor rhe weekend srorrs. Their only comploinr is rhor rhey only hove rwo days ro do everyrhing rhor rhey’d like ro do We osked some Riverheod srudenrs whor rhey do on rheir weekends I like ro spend rime wirh my friends, hove o good rime, ond forger obour school , soid Jeonnie Lomendolo Ion Hompden expressed rhe some senrimenrs: Party! Of course, nor oil srudenrs like ro porry oil weekend As Troci Angermoier rold us. I like ro sleep lore on rhe weekends.' Chris Kruger gives us his advice: Relax in a fun way. Some srudenrs use rheir rime ro do rhings rhor ore o bir our of rhe or- dinary. Jock Hofmonn likes doncing in movie rheorer parking lots'. ond Srephonie Whidden cleans her house. As you con see. Riverheod srudenrs do oil sorts of rhings on weekends-some ore good, some ore bod. ond some ore unex- pected Morr Yokoboski soid ir best I con'r sum ir up, becouse there's too much going on. You know rhe deal ”